Thank you Kinseek for your answer. I now have deactivated Multitasking, but now is the function to lock the screen rotation disappeared. Is this function not available for the 3G?
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Iphone 3G with Ios 4.0 fast or slow Poll
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It deletes everything (so take backup of whatever you want to keep), meaning less junk is behind, You would of course have to re-jailbreak (unless you do a full restore from a pre-jailbroken firmware file).
That function is tied to the multitasking GUI. Disabling multitasking will also disable the button to lock screen rotation.
I've had a full day to use iOS4 on my 3G and I have to say that I am impressed! This thing runs smoother than I thought it would and I have wallpapers and multitasking enabled. The only slow app that I have noticed is iBooks but it's not a deal breaker by any means.
3G iOS 4.0 jailbreak with multitasking, wallpaper, battery percentage, and cydia
Latency and battery life are a total joke. Going to restore it to iOS 4.0 and jailbreak without m/t and wallpapers. It was quite peppy with just iOS 4
Latency and battery life are a total joke. Going to restore it to iOS 4.0 and jailbreak without m/t and wallpapers. It was quite peppy with just iOS 4
Well, add +1 to the column of it works just fine with multi-tasking, wallpapers and JB'd. Simply don't be a dufus and run more than what the meager RAM is capable of. I've been watching the SBSettings memory indicator like a hawk and when it gets around 5 MB, you can start to tell. Apple really should give some kind of visible indication when you encroach on this limit. Use the Homeland security color coding on the menu bar or something.
Speaking of the GUI, I find the double-click to bring up the "background" app list kind of oddly thought out (works better with Backgrounder and Circuitous IMO). Not to mention the list itself really needs to tell you what apps are actually DOING something. I'm sure someone in the alter-world will get to that.
What truly sucks is the lie of iOS 4 multi-tasking and how ALL APPs will need to be re-coded to not restart themselves after being frozen. This is shades of MultiFinder and the event loop on the Mac all over again for those old enough to remember it. Though that transition was better.
Speaking of the GUI, I find the double-click to bring up the "background" app list kind of oddly thought out (works better with Backgrounder and Circuitous IMO). Not to mention the list itself really needs to tell you what apps are actually DOING something. I'm sure someone in the alter-world will get to that.
What truly sucks is the lie of iOS 4 multi-tasking and how ALL APPs will need to be re-coded to not restart themselves after being frozen. This is shades of MultiFinder and the event loop on the Mac all over again for those old enough to remember it. Though that transition was better.
I actually have no use of multitasking as of yet, since not many apps have been updated with the multitasking API. My phone is going good without the wallpapers and the multitasking. I restored and did not enable either of them and I am pretty happy. Its nice to have a new start. I love iBooks.
Official iOS 4 was pretty snappy on my 3G. As fast or faster than 3.1.3. Then I JB with multitaskin, home screen wallpaper & battery % indicator and it was REALLY slow. Restores 3G to official iOS 4 and JB again with only home screen wallpaper & battery % indicator and it's back to useable speed.
Is it as fast now with the wallpapers and battery percentage as it was with a fresh iOS 4 install? I'd like to add the wallpaper back at least but I'm not sure if it's worth it if it isn't as fast.
It isn't as fast. But definitely bearable. A few lags here and there, but not as bad as with multitasking installed.
Using M/T + wallpapers + battery capacity + sbsettings.. and biteSMS + removed shadows
Also i downloaded from cydia the file that removes recents so APPS dont even support M/T dont get stuck down there..
For M/T all i have down there is Phone, biteSMS and Mail, i dont see a point in having other apps down there as those 3 are the most frequent ones i use..
Phone runs quick no complaints here..
Side note, can you remove M/T feature without actually having to restore and redo everything?
Also i downloaded from cydia the file that removes recents so APPS dont even support M/T dont get stuck down there..
For M/T all i have down there is Phone, biteSMS and Mail, i dont see a point in having other apps down there as those 3 are the most frequent ones i use..
Phone runs quick no complaints here..
Side note, can you remove M/T feature without actually having to restore and redo everything?
whats the name of the file in cydia you donwloaded to remove recent apps?
ssh into your phone and go to /System/Library/CoreService/SpringBoard.app/N82AP.plist. set multitasking to false.
Can you do that edit in iFile? or does it have to be ssh?
Also the recents thing is "Remove Recents", available in the Big Boss repository
Yah its a text editor within the iphone itself. I did some editing on it to remove the shadows on icons
had the GM installed and jailbroken/multi-task/wallpaper and itunes backup installed and it was very laggy. Re-tried with the final 4.0 from itunes, jailbroke with just multi-task, itunes backup installed, deleted safe launch daemons and it is much better. I had stepped down from a 3gs also, I switched with my dad recently...but now I need to check the bootrom version of that 3gs. I might need to take it back if it's the jailbreakable version.
this is definitely a really interesting subject. i just jailbroke for the first time to try out 4.0 multitasking and wallpaper on my 3g, and i've literally found *no* performance decrease as a result of the two.
folder opening is maybe a little laggy, but then folders are brand new so i don't really have a baseline for comparison. battery life has also probably taken a bit of a hit, but thats a fair trade off and in my case its still not awful by any means. would be nice if a future update to sbsettings could add toggles for wallpaper and multitasking so you can turn them on/off without having to edit plist files. that way you can optimize your phone for performance/features on the fly.
maybe things will bog down over time, but for the moment i get the distinct feeling that apple's disabling of wallpapers in particular was an artificially imposed limitation.
anyway, gonna try out that "remove recents" feature that others have mentioned as multitasking at this point is really just a fast app switcher, and having more 4 items in the app drawer pretty much defeats that purpose.
folder opening is maybe a little laggy, but then folders are brand new so i don't really have a baseline for comparison. battery life has also probably taken a bit of a hit, but thats a fair trade off and in my case its still not awful by any means. would be nice if a future update to sbsettings could add toggles for wallpaper and multitasking so you can turn them on/off without having to edit plist files. that way you can optimize your phone for performance/features on the fly.
maybe things will bog down over time, but for the moment i get the distinct feeling that apple's disabling of wallpapers in particular was an artificially imposed limitation.
anyway, gonna try out that "remove recents" feature that others have mentioned as multitasking at this point is really just a fast app switcher, and having more 4 items in the app drawer pretty much defeats that purpose.
restore w/ backup slow, clean restore peppy
just wanted to chime in with my experience -- my initial upgrade was unbearably slow (the restore process was interrupted by my over zealous son who closed the laptop mid restore-from-backp). Did a fresh install as a new iPhone and it's MUCH better!
just wanted to chime in with my experience -- my initial upgrade was unbearably slow (the restore process was interrupted by my over zealous son who closed the laptop mid restore-from-backp). Did a fresh install as a new iPhone and it's MUCH better!
it is actually faster more responsive, best FW yet, but the battery tho is an issue. Other than that!I upgraded to 4.0GM and enabled multitasking and homescreen wallpapers. As much as I wanted it to work well, it was definitely slow, and I didn't really feel the need to have multitasking enabled.
I restored, re-jailbroke, disabling multitasking and wallpapers - now it's flying.
Sadly the 3G isn't up to the job.
I restored, re-jailbroke, disabling multitasking and wallpapers - now it's flying.
Sadly the 3G isn't up to the job.
I've had a full day to use iOS4 on my 3G and I have to say that I am impressed! This thing runs smoother than I thought it would and I have wallpapers and multitasking enabled. The only slow app that I have noticed is iBooks but it's not a deal breaker by any means.
-1 thus for fast... this is a 3GS: 3G phones do not have multitasking!
My 3G is so slow, it is ready to be replaced by a nokia e71 (my previous phone) for the time being...
Hopefully apple will address the speed issue soon.